Philipp Aldrup, German photographer based in South-East Asia for over 10 years.

Mesmerised and troubled by the inexplicability of mankind’s brief existence in the dizzying vastness of time and space, I seek spaces of unsettling beauty in scenes that contain fragments of multiple temporalities.

My visuals seek to be disquieting and contemplative – meditations and a poetic rebellion against the imperatives of bleak functionality and mind-numbing economization.

There’s been regression, a lot of regression. Things don’t move smoothly. But there have been bad periods before, and we’ve pulled out of them.
I think there are opportunities—they’re not huge, but they’re real—to overcome the—and I stress again—to overcome problems that the human species has never faced in its roughly 200,000 years of existence, problems of, literally, survival.

We’ve already answered these questions for a huge number of species: We’ve killed them off.